Political EconomyRichard Griffin., 1854 - 239 стор. |
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... principal object of the Science is to secure a certain fund of subsistence for all the inhabitants , to obviate every circumstance which may render it precarious , and to provide everything necessary for supplying the wants of the ...
... principal object of the Science is to secure a certain fund of subsistence for all the inhabitants , to obviate every circumstance which may render it precarious , and to provide everything necessary for supplying the wants of the ...
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... principal , guides in the actual conduct of affairs . In the meantime the duty of each individual writer is clear . Employed as he is upon a Science in which error or even ignorance may be productive of such intense and such extensive ...
... principal , guides in the actual conduct of affairs . In the meantime the duty of each individual writer is clear . Employed as he is upon a Science in which error or even ignorance may be productive of such intense and such extensive ...
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... principal difficulty consists not in the ascertainment of its facts , but in the use of its terms , we cannot doubt that their principal efforts would have been directed to the selection and consistent use of an accurate nomenclature ...
... principal difficulty consists not in the ascertainment of its facts , but in the use of its terms , we cannot doubt that their principal efforts would have been directed to the selection and consistent use of an accurate nomenclature ...
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... too . What gives their principal value to the vineyards of the Côte Rotie , but the warmth of their sun ? or to the houses which overlook Hyde Park , but the purity of their air ? Rivers and the 8 NATURE OF WEALTH . Transferableness,
... too . What gives their principal value to the vineyards of the Côte Rotie , but the warmth of their sun ? or to the houses which overlook Hyde Park , but the purity of their air ? Rivers and the 8 NATURE OF WEALTH . Transferableness,
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... principal merits . The palace of St. James's is full of comfort and convenience , and would supply a man of large fortune with an excellent residence ; but the long suite of apartments within apartments , which is admirably adapted to ...
... principal merits . The palace of St. James's is full of comfort and convenience , and would supply a man of large fortune with an excellent residence ; but the long suite of apartments within apartments , which is admirably adapted to ...
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Сторінка 217 - One man draws out the wire; another straights it; a third cuts it; a fourth points it; a fifth grinds it at the top for receiving the head...
Сторінка 73 - This great increase of the quantity of work which, in consequence of the division of labor, the same number of people are capable of performing, is owing to three different circumstances; first, to the increase of dexterity in every particular workman; secondly, to the saving of the time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another; and lastly, to the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labor, and enable one man to do the work of many.
Сторінка 73 - Men are much more likely to discover easier and readier methods of attaining any object when the whole attention of their minds is directed towards that single object than when it is dissipated among a great variety of things. But in consequence of the division of labour...
Сторінка 200 - ... first, the agreeableness or disagreeableness of the employments themselves; secondly, the easiness and cheapness, or the difficulty and expense of learning them; thirdly, the constancy or inconstancy of employment in them; fourthly, the small or great trust which must be reposed in those who exercise them; and, fifthly, the probability or improbability of success in them.
Сторінка 78 - A stock of goods of different kinds, therefore, must be stored up somewhere sufficient to maintain him, and to supply him with the materials and tools of his work, till such time, at least, as both these events can be brought about.
Сторінка 45 - We will suppose the means of subsistence in any country just equal to the easy support of its inhabitants. The constant effort towards population, which is found to act even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased.
Сторінка 45 - ... there are few states in which there is not a constant effort in the population to increase beyond the means of subsistence. This constant effort as constantly tends to subject the lower classes of society to distress, and to prevent any great permanent melioration of their condition.
Сторінка 116 - But land, in almost any situation» produces a greater quantity of food than what is sufficient to maintain all the labour necessary for bringing it to market, in the most liberal way in which that labour is ever maintained. The surplus, too, is always more than sufficient to replace the stock which employed that labour, together with its profits. Something, therefore, always remains for a rent to the landlord.
Сторінка 63 - They are a sort of instruments of trade, and may be considered in the same light: Thirdly, of the improvements of land, of what has been profitably laid out in clearing, draining, enclosing, manuring, and reducing it into the condition most proper for tillage and culture.